| One question left unanswered in the wake of Melbourne’s hotel quarantine debacle - which led to the deaths of over 800 Victorians – is who made the decision to hire private security rather than police or ADF to guard the hotel quarantine program. The messages between Premier Daniel Andrews and his chief of staff potentially hold answers, and the Victorian opposition is now pushing to make them public under Freedom of Information laws.
“We know that the texts between Lissie Ratcliff and Daniel Andrews were also provided to the Coate Inquiry, Coate didn’t make them public, and that I think is a mistake,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “If he has got nothing to hide, he should have nothing to fear in releasing these texts.” According to Mr Davis, the Victorian government is using “every legal trick in the book” to try and block the release of these texts.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
How many beers did Dirty Dan have to fall down the stairs?
I lost trust in Victoria labor party.
How many reports has Morrison and his chief of PMO buried
Maybe they can just say it’s cabinet in confidence - seems to work for the federal government
Standard line from followers of Daniel Andrews- somehow it’s Morrison’s fault that there’s a corruption investigation against the Vic govt!
Australian democracy desperately needs a effective Federal ICAC and an enforcable Parliamentarian Code of Conduct.
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